If Jackson is nominated, does Biden nominate Kruger to the open DC Circuit seat? Janice Rogers Brown left the California Supreme Court for the DC Circuit when nominated by George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2005.
I would add the Honorable Denise Jefferson Casper to the list included in the "field." Judge Casper was Wesleyan '90, Harvard Law '94. She has been a District Court judge in the District of Massachusetts since 2010. She is a former AUSA and Middlesex County ADA. She presided over the trial of Whitey Bulger.
I like Justice Kruger and have argued in front of her. She just seems like a very kind, and brilliant, judge. Her opinions are clear and written well. She is pro-consumer, like the court itself.
Some commentators have said Justice Kruger is moderate. She is moderate in the context of the California Supreme Court, which went from a conservative court to a liberal court in a few years. Justice Cuellar and Justice Liu were to her left (Cuellar has left the court, unfortunately). On the US Supreme Court, she would be a member of the liberal block and a frequent dissenter.
It's funny how Justice Kruger and Judge Jackson have similar backgrounds--upper-middle-class childhoods, elite schools, elite judicial clerkships. Judge Childs is the opposite--a working-class family and a graduate of state schools. All three are excellent candidates-I wish we had more openings!
Here's an "out of the box" suggestion: Former First Lady Michelle Obama. She's brilliant, she's relatively young, and she would make the heads of Fox News viewers explode. So, bonus!
Very happy to see the front runner is former Federal PD. Having spent a sizeable part of my early career as a PD in Cook County, I can tell you we need more of our judiciary who have wrestled with the constitutional issues from the side of the accused than the side of the state. Former prosecutors can make excellent judges. That said, in the criminal context, it is the side advocating for the accused that clearly see the inherent limitations and degradation of constitutional rights at a very human level.
If Jackson is nominated, does Biden nominate Kruger to the open DC Circuit seat? Janice Rogers Brown left the California Supreme Court for the DC Circuit when nominated by George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2005.
I would add the Honorable Denise Jefferson Casper to the list included in the "field." Judge Casper was Wesleyan '90, Harvard Law '94. She has been a District Court judge in the District of Massachusetts since 2010. She is a former AUSA and Middlesex County ADA. She presided over the trial of Whitey Bulger.
http://www.longroadtojustice.org/topics/leadership/denise-casper.php
https://www.mad.uscourts.gov/boston/casper.htm
I like Justice Kruger and have argued in front of her. She just seems like a very kind, and brilliant, judge. Her opinions are clear and written well. She is pro-consumer, like the court itself.
Some commentators have said Justice Kruger is moderate. She is moderate in the context of the California Supreme Court, which went from a conservative court to a liberal court in a few years. Justice Cuellar and Justice Liu were to her left (Cuellar has left the court, unfortunately). On the US Supreme Court, she would be a member of the liberal block and a frequent dissenter.
It's funny how Justice Kruger and Judge Jackson have similar backgrounds--upper-middle-class childhoods, elite schools, elite judicial clerkships. Judge Childs is the opposite--a working-class family and a graduate of state schools. All three are excellent candidates-I wish we had more openings!
Here's an "out of the box" suggestion: Former First Lady Michelle Obama. She's brilliant, she's relatively young, and she would make the heads of Fox News viewers explode. So, bonus!
Click on the link at go to 6:30 for Jimmy Kimmel's suggestion, which is just about perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsM9d_I1VMs
Very happy to see the front runner is former Federal PD. Having spent a sizeable part of my early career as a PD in Cook County, I can tell you we need more of our judiciary who have wrestled with the constitutional issues from the side of the accused than the side of the state. Former prosecutors can make excellent judges. That said, in the criminal context, it is the side advocating for the accused that clearly see the inherent limitations and degradation of constitutional rights at a very human level.